Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 74.1 (2000) 212-217

Books Received *

Karel B. Absolon. The Development of an Academic Surgeon, the Young Theodore Billroth (1829-1894): Some Early Works and Study with Special Reference to His First Operation in 1852. Dedication of a Tablet Commemorating This Event in 1999. Monograph on "The Development of Blood Vessels." Rockville, Md.: Kabel, 1999. 104 pp. Ill. $49.50.

Katherine G. Allen. Harnessing the Power of Motherhood: The National Florence Crittenton Mission, 1883-1925. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xxiv + 266 pp. Ill. $38.00.

Gregg Andrews. Insane Sisters: Or, the Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. xii + 262 pp. Ill. $29.95.

Hector Avalos. Health Care and the Rise of Christianity. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1999. ix + 166 pp. $16.90 (paperbound).

Peter Baldwin. Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii + 581 pp. $69.95.

Katherine Bankole. Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana. Studies in African American History and Culture. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. xiii + 262 pp. Tables. $61.00.

Heather Bell. Frontiers of Medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1899-1940. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xiv + 261 pp. Ill. $78.00.

Àngel Beneito Lloris, Francesc-X Blay Meseguer, and Joan Lloret Pastor, eds. Beneficència ii Sanitat en els municipis valencians, 1813-1942. Trobades, no. 4. Seminari d'Estudis sobre la Ciència, Associació Cultural Alcoià-Comtat, and Centre Alcoià d'Estudis Històrics i Arqueològics. Alcoi: Ajuntament d'Alcoi, 1999. 330 pp. No price given (paperbound).

Richard J. Bing, ed. Cardiology: The Evolution of the Science and the Art. 2d ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xiv + 360 pp. Ill. $55.00 (cloth), $24.00 (paperbound).

Martin Booth. Opium: A History. Reprint. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. xii + 381 pp. $14.95 (paperbound).

Jeffrey Borkan, Shmuel Reis, Dov Steinmetz, and Jack H. Medalie, eds. Patients and Doctors: Life-Changing Stories from Primary Care. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. xii + 221 pp. $24.95.

Terry Boychuk. The Making and Meaning of Hospital Policy in the United States and Canada. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. xvi + 178 pp. Ill. $42.50.

Allan M. Brandt and Paul Rozin, eds. Morality and Health. New York: Routledge, 1997. ix + 416 pp. Ill. $25.99 (paperbound).

Lynne Curry. Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in Illinois, 1900-1930. Women and Health: Cultural and Social Perspectives. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. x + 206 pp. $40.00 (cloth), $18.50 (paperbound).

Horace W. Davenport. Not Just Any Medical School: The Science, Practice, and Teaching of Medicine at the University of Michigan, 1850-1941. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. xii + 382 pp. Ill. $52.50.

Soraya de Chadarevian and Harmke Kamminga, eds. Molecularizing Biology and Medicine: New Practices and Alliances, 1910s-1970s. Studies in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, vol. 6. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998. xvii + 304 pp. Ill. $65.00.

Anne Digby. The Evolution of British General Practice, 1850-1948. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xiv + 376 pp. Ill. $80.00.

Susan Dunn. Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light. New York: Faber and Faber, 1999. xi + 258 pp. Ill. $26.00.

Wolfgang U. Eckart. Medizin und Kolonialimperialismus: Deutschland 1884-1945. Paderborn, Germany: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1997. 638 pp. Ill. DM 84.00 (paperbound).

Jerry L. Gaw. A Time to Heal: The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian Britain. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 89, pt. 1. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999. xii + 173 pp. Ill. $25.00.

Sheldon Gelman. Medicating Schizophrenia: A History. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999. ix + 274 pp. $23.00 (paperbound).

Ann Goldberg. Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness: The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. x + 236 pp. Ill. $35.00.

Susan C. Greenfield and Carol Barash, eds. Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature, 1650-1865. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1999. viii + 274...